User:Duyfrak/Van Bohemen Family

The history of the Van Bohemen family, also called the Van Boheemen family, starts in the former amt of Monster in the 15th century..

Family founder
Family founder (progenitor) Philip was born around 1430. His grandson Sijmen Jan Philipsz (c 1500 - c. 1560) owned a large farm in the (West)-Looserdijckerpolder (now Uithofspolder). From 1923, this polder is no longer a part of Monster, but of The Hague.

The farm of Sijmen Jan Philipsz got the name Vrederust, It must disappear because of an expansion of the city of The Hague. The new city district was called Vrederust.

The year 1593 adorned the facade of the farm in the form of wall anchors. In the construction, indications have been found for an earlier building.

Extent of the family
Family founder Philip has 60 descendants in the period 1430-1650, exclusive descendants of daughters. Almost everyone lived on a farm in or near Monster.

In 2007 there were about 890 persons in the Netherlands with the Van Bohemen or Van Boheemen family name. A large part lived in The Hague region; the rest fairly spread over the Netherlands. In addition, the family members who lived abroad, in particular as a result of the wave of emigration shortly after the World War II.

The spellings Van Bohemen and Van Boheemen are practiced to the same extent.

Family name
As far as known, the family name appeared for the first time in a notarial deed from 1632. In this act Dirk Jansz van Bohemen named as a tenant of a farm in The Hague, located in the Segbroekpolder. The farm in question, which was given the name Bohemen, has been demolished at the end of the World War II. The city district built around the demolished farm was called Bohemen.

Previuously, family members were only mentioned with patronymics. An exception to this is a family branch of which two generations haf the Vercroft family name from their step(grand)father.

There is no indication that the Van Bohe(e)men family name has to do with an origin of the family in the former kingdom Bohemia.

There is no consanguinity with the people who have the Bohemen family name (without the prefix 'van'). They are decendants of Jews migrated from Central Europe to the Netherlands in the 18e century.

Sources, notes and references
Van Bohe(e)men Family Tree